I currently bill for a cardiologist. When she visits patients in the hospital the office/I bill for her hospital visits.She was asking me if we can bill for extended conversations with patients. Some patients are such that they ask many questions and take up lot of her time ( up to an hour). She wanted to find out if we can bill for that extra time?

If the patient have some queries then it become doctor's duty to answer the all questions. But you can do one thing for stander queries, you can hire a person so that before asking all questions from doctor directly. Patients ask regular questions from that person. It will be helpful and also time saving.